Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has disclosed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government website in June, reaching both publicly available files and material that was not intended for public access.
The incident involved the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, which is administered by Services Australia, Albanese told reporters in New York.
“This incident occurred in June this year, and involved an Open AI agent gaining unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, which is administered by Services Australia,” he said.
Albanese said the agent had accessed files available to the public as well as non-public material.
